Re: more than one synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Absolutely. I have Dectalk, Festival, FreeTTS, etc all built and compiled in gnome speech and it is easy as cake to switch to another synth in orca. Smile. MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > can you have more than one software synthesiser on a Linux system, for > example Dectalk and Espeak an

Re: installing edgy

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, hank smith wrote: > can you also enclude espeak? I think that is the name of the tts engine I've never heard of it. Is it free or commercial, and is it supported by gnome-speech? ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@g

Cepstral voices.

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi list, I've been wondering this for quite a long time. I have some Cepstral voices for Windows, but was thinking of buying some for Linux for quite a while. Can anyone tell me weather the theta or swift engines are supported, and a list of known voices which work with gnome-speech? Thanks. __

Re: installing edgy

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, > Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > Thomas, is this something we could place in multiverse (our non-free > repository) so that people don't have to compile it? And would you be > willing to maintain it? ;) > Yes, I think we could do that and something I have been strongly thinking about. The

Re: installing edgy

2006-09-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > Also if I get Orca running with Ubuntu Edgy running as live, when I > install it rather than run it as Live, could I set up Dectalk later and > run the Orca setup and configure Orca to recognise the Dectalk software > synthasiser? > Yes and no. Before you can run

Best way to get Edgy.

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, I would like to be a tester for Ubuntu Edgy, but I can't get the daily isos for Edgy. They change them faster than I can download them. For example, I was downloading Sep. 02 from this weekend got about 80% of it downloaded,got busy, went back tonight to finish the download only to find

Re: compiling or obtaining gnome-speech; also festival and orca on debian

2006-09-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > 1. I can't get the version of gnome-speech recommended for orca to > compile on my debian unstable system. It hangs after checking for > javac and responding "yes" in the configure. Does anybody know what > might be the cause for this and is there an up-to-date ver

Re: [gnopernicus on debian etch]

2006-09-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Rylan Vroom wrote: > Hello, is that installing gnopernicus howto written by nath in 2002 > still reliable for setting up gnopernicus under debian? No. In fact, if you want a gnome desktop with gnopernicus you don't have to compile anything all of the more current packages can be gotten via

Re: Software that works with Orca? - was Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > When speaking of software that works with Orca, firstly, is the Firefox > 2.0 included with Edgy or do i have to fetch it? Firefox 2.0 comes on the Edgy live cd. I've been told it will be shipping with the latest version of Firefox 2 when 6.10 is out for release in

Re: Orca very unfortunate with edgy live cd, can't get it working

2006-09-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, krishnakant Mane wrote: > can some one give me the link for stable build? Well, if you want to get the latest stable build try ftp://cdimages.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/20060831 and if that doesn't work try ftp://cdimages.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/20060829 Hth. ___

Re: command or graphical update

2006-09-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > When I get Ubuntu on my desktop, should I do my updates via the command > line with apt-get or use that popup thing that comes up when I loggin? > Well, most of the time I open gnome-terminal and use apt-get to add, remove, and update my Ubuntu system. However, if

Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, hank smith wrote: > what about recording applications I haven't done much recording myself in Linux, but there is a simple sound recorder program that ships with Gnome 2.14 that seams accesssible with orca. In addition the usual text based alternatives such as arecord work nicely for recor

Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > What I would like to know is what applications does Orca work with as I > will only have access to the Gui based applications unless there are > text based ones I can use as well? > Orca works with several GUI based applications as well as a wide range of

Re: which version of gnome speech

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Michael. Generally speaking get the latest version. I believe I compiled gnome-speech 0.4.02 and orca 0.26, and am using them on Ubuntu 6.06. If you want the stock version of gnome-speech I believe 6.06 shipped with gnome-speech 0.4.0. MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > Which version of Gnome speech sh

Re: setting up dectalk

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Michael. After extracting the Dectalk runtime files cd to the Dectalk directory and do a ./install which will ask you for your product ID. Also you need to edit the *.sh files to make sure everything is going to /usr in Ubuntu. As for making Orca recognize Dectalk go to the Gnome ftp site and

Re: thanks

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Michael. Does this also mean I have to try and disable the drums that sound before I type my login information? No. Just the one that sounds right after you login seams to cause the problem. Also if you plan to use game the sound that game makes when sending and getting messages causes prob

Re: unzipping the latest orca and dectalk

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Michael. > How do I unzip the files I downloaded from the Orca site which is the > latest Orca and also unzip my copy of Dectalk? > Michael, the program used for unzipping most things in Linux is called tar. Open a Gnome-terminal window so you have a command line. Cd to the directory w

Re: problem starting gnopernicus

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello, Michael. There was a 22 year old girl trying to install Orca for me but she couldn't find where the Ubuntu package was downloaded. In order to download and install the orca package you must uncomment the universe lines from your apt package sources list. Then while connected to the web

Re: gnopernicus system requirements

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Jude. I don't know of any limitations of using either one, but I personally like xorg. It is nicer to setup. Jude DaShiell wrote: > Does gnopernicus need or can it use xorg or is gnopernicus only needing > xfree86 to operate well? I have a choice as to what to install on debian. > > >

Re: dectalk for linux and orca

2006-07-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Cody. Well, you will have to first install the Dectalk RT for Linux, uninstall gnome-speech, and recompile gnome-speech from scratch to get the driver. As for orca I have always built my orca from cvs sources, and can not say one way or another if you will have to reinstall orca. I believe

Re: dectalk for linux and orca

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Michael. Yes, you must install Dectalk before setting up orca. You also need to recompile gnome-speech to create the Dectalk driver. Hth. MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > Do I need to unzip and install Dectalk before I setup Orca? > ___ > gnome-accessibilit

Re: purchasing software dectalk

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello, Michael. The software tts engine being used at CSUN was the Dectalk RT for Linux version 4.6.4.However, the newer 5.0 version will work as well with Orca, but some feel the new 5 voice isn't as good as 4.6.4. Anyway, the Fonix web site is a real pain to use. Since I have saved this in my

Re: which file for Orca

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello, Michael. It doesn't matter if you get a *.tar.gz or a *tar.bz2 package as you can easily uncompress them both with tar. However, the bz2 package is better compressed, smaller, so if you are on dialup it makes it easier to grab. The current version I have is 0.2.6 which I compiled from raw

Re: Gnopernicus vs Orca

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello. Christian wrote: > I am running latest version of Debian, is it easy to get Orca up and running? > It wasn't to hard for me. What you need is Gnome 2.14, gnome-devel, python-dev, build-essentials, and of course the orca 0.25 source. Compile as normal and you are off and running. ___

Re: Gnopernicus vs Orca

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Christian. Christian wrote: > Hello all, > Maybe someone on this list can tell me what is better with Orca compared with > Gnopernicus. Orca has allot of future promise as a screen reader. Some of it's major advantages over gnopernicus is being able to be scripted for apps that are not be

Re: Help recovering from orca crashes.

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Mike Pedersen wrote: > A minor error in my last message. That should have been killall -9. > Also, you will need to of course restart orca after doing this. Thanks I caught that the first time, but I am glad you sent the correction anyway. Smile. > Mike __

Re: Help recovering from orca crashes.

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello, Mike. Mike Pedersen wrote: This may be a case of the entire desktop getting hung. That is a strong possability. I noticed when orca goes I can't even get to run and open gnome-terminal and often I have to control+alt+f1 over to a shell to kill orca to get gnome freed up. Are you at le

Help recovering from orca crashes.

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, all. Ok, well I have been running orca 0.25 with gnome-speech 0.4.0 and festival and Dectalk 5. I've noticed orca crashes quite often unexpectedly, and the only way to get speech back is to reboot from scratch. Some notes about the problem. When orca crashes all sound, speech, and system sou

Re: accessible distros

2006-07-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi. Jason White wrote: As long as the access software you need has been packaged for your chosen distribution, it doesn't matter much which you select from the point of view of accessibility. That is true, but right now it seams Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu 6.06 are on the leading edge of accesssi

Re: accessible distros

2006-07-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Cody. Well, I'm quite happy with Ubuntu 6.06 at the moment. It's desktop cd comes with most of the apps you want out of the box such as gaim, evolution, firefox, gedit, etc. It is fairly accessible, and I have been using it for a couple of days now, and I can't complain to much about Ubunt

Re: followup on Ubuntu (fwd)

2006-07-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi. Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: For someone just starting out, I'd say that a live distribution such as GRML or Knoppix would be the simplest way to find out about Linux. Agreed. That would be the best way for a total new user to try out Linux, and that is a good point. Although, that

Re: auto unattended installation of Ubunto?

2006-07-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Hank. hank smith wrote: > hello is it possible to do a auto unattended installation of Ubunto? Yes, it is. it is a bit of a pain to do it, but you need to write a unattend.cfg file, put it somewhere the installer can find it, and then pass the file name and other options to the installer a

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Hank. A little earlier Al posted a direct link to buy the Dectalk software, and I just tested this address and you can get dectalk 4.6.4 or 5.0 using this link. Here is again incase you missed it. http://www.fonixspeech.com/pages/dectalk_rt_purchase.php Cheers. _

Saving Orca settings.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, all. I know that Orca is suppose to have a --setup option wich will setup Orca, but from in gnome terminal when I do orca --setup it does absolutely nothing. Any ideas what to do about that? Some of the things I want to do and I don't know if it is supported yet or not is save Dectalk speech

Re: question about odd distro

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Cody wrote: > Hello all, Hi. > > I was wondering, after a bit of googling, I found this distro called > Ocularis, and it had claimed to be completely accessible to the blind > and only for the blind, and yes, it had a desktop, of which I'm > guessing gnome. H I have never heard of

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Adam Myrow wrote: On another note, does Fonix still offer the Dectalk RT for Linux? Yes, they do. However, when I purchased Dectalk 5 I had to jump through hoops on there web site to find the Dectalk RT page, and there site is not accessible for a blind user. I had to actually acquire sighted

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Adam Myrow wrote: There is also a very annoying bug in the Dectalk 5.0. If you use any of several compound words that start with "fire," it pronounces them weirdly with a phantom Euro symbol getting inserted, then proceeds to butcher the rest of the line. Anybody else hear this? No, I haven

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Al Puzzuoli wrote: i'm not sure how much you could ascertain by listening to the orca demo at csun,but I would be curious as to what your thoughts are as to the speech quality of 4.64 vs that of 5? There is certainly a difference in quality between 4.6.4 and 5.0. The 4.6.4 version used at

Re: followup on Ubuntu (fwd)

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi. Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: You can always mount the ISO. That is only true if the person actually has a Linux system installed and can mount the iso to view it's contents. In my own recent experience I installed Ubuntu 6.06 to a brand new drive where no os was on it as I was havi

Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, all. I have been spending the past couple of hours testing Dectalk 5 with Orca 0.25, gnome-speech 04.0, on Ubuntu 6.06 and it is working fine. So we can certainly say for sure that it does work with current assistive technologies under Linux. In fact the only strange thing I noticed is when

Re: Dectalk version?

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Mike. Yeah, I have 4.6.1 and 5.0 but not 4.6.4. I haven't tested with gnome-speech, but Dectalk 5 seams to work good with Emacspeak as far as stability. 4.6.1 is terrible. Mike Pedersen wrote: > Hi, let me clarify here. I'm using Dectalk 4.6.4 which is much more > stable than the 4.6.1 re

Re: Dectalk version?

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Mike. Do you know if 5.0 will work as well. I don't see any major reason to say not, but I am just wondering if you guys have any issues with 5 and gnome-speech. If not I'll test it and let you guys no. Thanks. Mike Pedersen wrote: > Hi Thomas, >> I wanted to setup the Fonix dectalk up with

Dectalk version?

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, list. I wanted to setup the Fonix dectalk up with gnome-speech, but I was wondering which version works best with gnome-speech 4.6.4 or 5.0. The Dectalk Mike used for the csun demo of Orca sounded pretty good, and I was wondering if that was 4.6.4 or 5.0. If it is 5 I'll upgrade so I can hav

Re: Gnome and Ubuntu 6.06?

2006-07-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi. Thanks for the tip. I finally figured that out after trial and error, but thankfully got it now on my system. Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > Thomas, > > I've a feeling that you've downloaded the wrong ISO. For what you want to > do, You'll need the alternate install image from Ubuntu

Ubuntu and gnopernicus problem.

2006-07-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, list. Ok, after an entire day of trying I do have a working Ubuntu 6.06 desktop system on my pc. Only during the process I have discovered what may be a very major bug in either Ubuntu's gnome-panel, gnopernicus, or both. If I do an alt+f2 to bring up Run, type gnopernicus, I get an error a

Re: followup on Ubuntu (fwd)

2006-07-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Ryan. Yes, an unattended install of Ubuntu 6.06 is possible, but without solid install manuals from the Ubuntu comunity on the subject is a rather bloody and tough process. I mainly compiled what I know from the Debian archives of manuals, and managed to get Ubuntu on my system. Still haven

Re: Gnome and Ubuntu 6.06?

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Ben. What happens if you don't have an internet connection at the time. I am assuming from your post the Ubuntu desktop cd doesn't contain gnopernicus. If not I am basicly screwed. Anyone know if the server eddition or the alternative install version has gnopernicus? I need to get this thing

Re: Gnome and Ubuntu 6.06?

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Jason. Thanks for the information. I just read through the Debian installation manual, and while it seams strait forward I don't think it reflects what I am seeing as far as Ubuntu 6.06 desktop version. Now, the manual did mention using a preconfiguration script which would allow one to do

Gnome and Ubuntu 6.06?

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, list. This might seam like a really stupid question, but I have been hearing allot about Ubuntu Linux which I'd like to try, and don't have a fricking clue on how to get it up and working. I have spent hours reading the Ubuntu sight and can't even find a basic install guide for it. So here

Re: keystrokes for gnome menus

2006-05-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, To open the Gnome main panel menu, the start menu, use alt+f2. Note, if you don't like alt+f2 and later wish to change it to be control+escape it can be done in your Gnome settings. I highly recommend reading the good Gnome documents at gnome.org. It will give you all the hot keys y

Re: Orca 0.2.3

2006-04-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Janina Sajka wrote: I believe those two environments rely on "gui configuration tools," so I am not surprised people would talk about wanting "gui configuration tools." But, it's the wrong approach. Hello. I wouldn't go as far to say it is the wrong approach, but I do believe it should not be t

Re: Anione out there using Mandriva (formerly mandrake)?

2005-10-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I use Mandriva Linux for my business I am building, but unfortunately I do not have any idea of an accessible install as yet. At least, not one that is easy. I can often do it by using a kickstart install that has been made for my computer. that is one of the advantages to Mandriva. Once you ha

Re: how to use gnopernicus?

2005-10-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I can testify that Mandriva formally Mandrake versions 2005 and 2006 work quite well with gnopernicus. However, there are some challenges to over come. I haven't found an accessible sightless install for mandrake or Mandriva produc products, and the os doesn't install gnopernicus by default. I

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Well, I would like to certainly here if the caps key changed state like caps on or caps off. I guess that is because I am use to the WWindows screen readers do it. However, there may be other methods such as a feature say cap t, cap acap b, etc when the caplock key is on and when the shift keys are

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bill, Here is some user feedback from a user using Gnome, and what I would like to see access for in htenear and not to distant future. 1. Support for Mozilla firefox. Firefox has become almost the industry leader in web browsers, and it would be the best choice for the Sun Java and Gnome des

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Ward
hI, i CAN'T SPEAK FOR BRAILLE SUPPORT, BUT i CAN SSPEAK FOR SPEECH. i HAVE USED GNGNOPERNICUS FOR MONTHS USING FESTIVAL AS MY SOFTWARE TTS TO GO ON LINE USING mOZILLA aPRIL 20005 TO BUY AND SELL ON THE LINE, PAY BILLS, USE EVOLUTION FOR EMAIL, WORK WITH oPENWRITER, AND GEDIT. i USE GAIM FOR aol INS

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Ward
hI, sNIP 2. Close your eyes and do something so that you can't see anything. > Are you really blind, now ? Ok, so: > 3. Switch on your computer, choose any graphical mailer you like, > and try to reply to this mail _without_ opening your eyes. > Just use a speech system, or a braille one, if you h

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Bill is right. We shouldn't sell the Gnome access to short yet. After all there is work that needs to be done, but we have achieved huge breakthroughs in access already. For example, three years ago i could do nothing at all in Gnome. Now, I daily use Evolution for my email, mozilla as my defa

Re: software TTS

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Thanks for the info. On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:55 -0500, George Kraft wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 10:02 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 11:09 -0500, George Kraft wrote: > > > Samuel & Daragh, > > > > > > I have the Lin

Re: software TTS

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, >From Windows the page is very accessible. From Mozilla under Linux it is a little tricky to use. It takes a little time, but I did manage to figure it out using gnopernicus and mozilla. On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:31 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > Hi Hank: > > That's "Theta", T H E T A. Cepstral

Re: software TTS

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, How can I tell if my voice is aSwift or a Theta voice. I recently ppurchased David for Windows, and was wondering if it would work with Gnome-speech if I downloaded the Linux version and tried it. On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:04 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > Darragh: > > I've used gnome-speech dri

Re: software TTS

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 11:09 -0500, George Kraft wrote: > Samuel & Daragh, > > I have the Linux IBM TTS running on Fedora Core 4. It needs ALSA > 1.0.9a, then you can test using /usr/bin/test-speech. > Interesting. What version of Viavoice do you have? I can't get it working on anything past

Re: gnopernicus and web browsers

2005-09-18 Thread Thomas Ward
You wrote: > "Sun's Mozilla accessibility engineers have put back most of the > accessibility > fixes from our branch into Mozilla trunk, and are now focusing on Firefox > accessibility." > > I have heard this before, but I am wondering what the Firefox status is right > now. Is there anything

Re: gnopernicus and web browsers

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Sorry, I am a bit late, but I use the Sun Mozilla build from: ftp.mozilla.org The latest and most speech friendly is the April 2005 release. To read the entire web page you need to use the carrot browsing which can be turned on with f7. On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 20:56 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: FC4, sound card detection without running Firstboot?

2005-08-28 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 12:20 -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > hello, > > just wondering how this can be done? I have a fresh install of FC4 and want > to get Festival working at the command line as well as in Gnome; However > sound has apparently not yet been detected. Is there a way to resolve

Re: What is the latest, accessibility release of mozilla

2005-08-25 Thread Thomas Ward
hI, On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:03 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know as stated in the subject, or > alternativly, which > browser is > the most gnopernicus-friendly and where can I get it? yOU WANT THE sUN mOZILLA 1.7 BUILD FROM aPRIL 22005. yOU CCAN GET THE SUN BBUILDS

Re: gnopernicus very slow,

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I haven't noticed gnopernicus being slow here. However, I have slightly newer machine than you. I have a pentium 2 GB processor, 512 MB of ram, and 32 MB of vidio memory, and it works ok with responce. Although, this is with festival. When I try Dectalk or other sinths it seams to drag allot.

Re: Evolution and Email

2005-08-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, You need to turn on caret tracking mode to make evolution accessible to read messages. On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:29 -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > Just what should be a simple question: how do you get Gnopernicus to > read a message? > > I seem to be stuck on the tool bar. I can get to w

Re: Latest version of Gnopernicus and where to get Orca

2005-08-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello, On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:31 +0100, Darragh wrote: > Hello yet again. > > Sorry if I'm cluttering up the list with questions. This is the last. > No problem. That is why this list exists. To get hte answer to questions. > Firstly, I'm using Gnopernicus 0.10.4-4 and I'm sure there have bee

Re: Evolution and Email

2005-08-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, As mentioned in a previous message Evolution 2.4 will have tthe best access when it comes out in a month, but the 2.2 version you have is not to shabby to start with. On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:25 +0100, Darragh wrote: > Hello again, > > I hear some of you talking about Evolution. I have versi

Re: Mozilla 1.7 and SuSE 9.3

2005-08-17 Thread Thomas Ward
YAST, but that is the majority of the packages you will need. > I read the list archive about installing 1.7 written by Thomas ward some time > ago which was very helpful. It was written for a Fedora Core user and the > --prefix was set to /usr. is this not /opt/ in SuSE 9.3? > M

Re: gaim question

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, In game go to create new account and you can select what type of chat clients you want to use. On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 18:18 -0700, Opie Taylor wrote: > Hello all, > > when I type the following into konsole: > > export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge > > then I type > > gaim > > it will fir

Re: Evolution question.

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:53 +0800, Harry Lu wrote: > Which version of evolution are you using? I just checked rpm and it states i have evolution-2.0-43 installed. Perhaps I should upgrade to a newer version of Evolution from Mandrake cooker? > Anyway, in all version of evolution, if

Evolution question.

2005-08-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi list, I noticed that evolution will allow me to send attachments but I can't figure out how to save attachments ffrom my emails. Does evolution allow saving of attachments or do I have to find another mail client to do this? Won of the things I need out of a mail client is to be able to send and

Re: Gnopernicus and gnome programs

2005-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi bill, I just tried passing the export gtk_modules variable to gnome terminal fired up gaim and I got absolutely nothing out of gaim. What am I doing wrong? I get nothing out of that app. On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:19 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > HI Cody: > > The problems you are having are rela

Re: Esd conflicts with gnome-speech?

2005-08-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 14:57 +0530, Aditya Pandey wrote: > I have been observing that when esd (enlightened sound daemon) > conflicts with gnome-speech on my Red Hat Linux 9. > Does it happen at all versions of linux or is it that I am using a > back dated version (0.3.0 of gnome-speech). Yes,

Re: Installing the java-access-bridge on Suse 9.3

2005-07-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Dara should also try the gnome-accessibility mail archives. Last year I sent out a post that gave a step by step install of the access bridge. The version numbers on the packages are different, but the basic outline is the same. at 13:20 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > There is some helpful in

Re: Installing the java-access-bridge on Suse 9.3

2005-07-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello Dara, If you can send me a copy of your config log I can probably track down the areas where your java access bridge is blowing up. Thanks. On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 12:48 +0100, Darragh wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install the java-access bridge on Suse 9.3 but it keeps > looking for librari

Re: gnopernicus on debian running 2.6.8?

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Hank, On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 21:39 -0700, hank smith wrote: > the test speech works fine. Well, that is a good start. that means that the driver is able to connect to festival. > getting something about invalid peramaters sorry for the misss spelling Which program gave the error about invalid

Re: gnopernicus on debian running 2.6.8?

2005-07-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello Hank, On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 21:25 -0700, hank smith wrote: > hello I just installed debian on my laptop dule boot with windows xp Well, I am not specifically a Debian user, but most of this is about the same across all Linux distros. > I got gnome installed xwindows and gnopernicus but it d

Re: missing librarys,

2005-07-16 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Snip > > Hello all, > > I am a new linux / gnopernicus user. I have tried to install gnopernicus on > > my mendrake official 10.1, but, when i do rpm -i > > gnopernicus-0.10.9-3mdk.i586.rpm, > > a message indicate that the folowing librarys are missing : > > * libgnome-mag.sos.2 > > * libgn

Re: Java-Access-Bridge and Location of Bonobo Libraries

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:27 +0100, Darragh wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install the Java Access Bridge on this Suse 9.3 box but during > .make it says that the library for bonobo is saved in a non standard location > or something like that. Has any one else installed the java access b

Re: YaST

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Ward
> Yast uses Qt, so by porting it to Qt4 it should be easily possible to make it > accessible. Ok, that is interesting. I've heard good things about the new QT, but haven't had a way to try it.Anyone, know where I can get KDE 3.4 and try QT 4? ___ gno

Re: YaST

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Ward
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:37 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > HI Darragh > > I'm afraid that YaST (the graphical version, at least) is not > accessible, because of the way it is constructed and implemented. The > YaST graphical toolkit does not talk to the gnome accessibility > infrastructure, and

Re: YaST

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Ward
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:28 +0100, Darragh wrote: > Hello again, > I'm trying to use Yast with the help of gnopernicus but its not reading > anything. I'm more than likely going to need to have access to this on a > daily basis so not having access to it is really not an option. Well, i hate to b

Re: Gnopernicus and FC2

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Ward
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 11:04 +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm running Fedora core 2 with Gnome 2.6. I'm trying to install > Gnopernicus 0.11:1. > However, it would appear that I'll have to upgrade Gnome for that to be > successful. Is it possible to run Gnome 2.10

Re: SUSE 9.3 professional and Gnopernicus

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, See answers below. - Original Message - From: "Darragh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:07 AM Subject: SUSE 9.3 professional and Gnopernicus > i've just been offered a job that requires that I use Suse 9.3 on a daily > basis. I'll have to be able to install

Re: now trying sun-mozilla 04/26/2005 version

2005-06-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello Jude, Yes, Mozilla is much more responsive than Internet Explorer as far as loading pages, and switching between carot browsing and non-carot browsing modes. Better yet many of the hot keys are similar, and Mozilla is a very easy browser to use. Happy browsing. - Original Message - F

Re: gnopernicus on fc4?

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello, - Original Message - From: "hank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:52 AM Subject: Re: gnopernicus on fc4? > where do I check this to see if it is at? > You have to open the gn

Re: gnopernicus on fc4?

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, On a number of ocations I have started Gnopernicus, and the speech checkbox under startup mode was unchecked. Once I got someone to check it gnopernicus started chatting away. I am not sure if the issue is unique to Mandrake 10.2, or to all Linux distros running Gnome 2.8.x. However, that is a

Re: what packages do I need to get to install mazilla on fc4?

2005-06-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello Hank, If you have Mozilla or Mozilla FireFox installed all the dependancies you need are already there. I don't have an exact list of them memorised, but it uses alot of standard Gnome libs, and other common packages. You can get the Fedora build of Mozilla from: http://stage.mozilla.org/pub

Re: can't get multimedia working with any browser

2005-06-12 Thread Thomas Ward
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 8:42 PM Subject: Re: can't get multimedia working with any browser > Actually, soap and use of web services might be able to make that > possible. They're used to p

Re: gnome-speech and the fonix dectalk synthesizer

2005-06-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Don, I know from experience Fedora puts all it's gnome stuf in /usr by default. It is generally a good idea to do: ./configure --prefix=/usr to make sure the files go where they are suppose to go. However, the exception to that rule is if you are using something like garnome or another developme

Re: can't get multimedia working with any browser

2005-06-06 Thread Thomas Ward
accessibility, but the gnopernicus constant speech issues makes me want to resolve that problem asap. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Peter Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:48 PM Subject:

Re: can't get multimedia working with any browser

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jude, I can tell you that your problem is not unique, and it doesn't seam to be memory related. I have ran Fedora and Mandriva with systems of 512 MB or greater and Gnopernicus 0.9.12 and greater seam to high dive for no reason at all. An example I was opening evolution like I did several times

KDE 3.4 accessibility status?

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi list, I realise this is not specifically Gnome related, but since the Gnome access and KDE access teams are working somewhat together I am interested in what accessibility is like on the new KDE 3.4 desktop. It is my understanding there are some very nice accessibility features coming our way fr

Opencalc 1.1.4?

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I have been attempting to convert my MS Excel spreadsheets to Opencalc 1.1.4, but I have found something has seriously broken either with gnopernicus or open calc with the latest releases. In Opencalc 1.1.2 or so I could arrow around the spreadsheet and hear gnopernicus say a1, b1, c1, etc.Sinc

Latest gnopernicus for 2.8.3?

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi list, I am interested in upgrading my copy of gnopernicus from the stock gnopernicus shipping with Gnome 2.8.3 to a newer release. However, I would like to know what is the latest stable release that is backward compatible with Gnome 2.8.3. Thanks. -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Problem with evolution addressbook.

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi list, I have been setting up evolution, but am having a problem with the address book feature. After I created the addressbook I have found I can not get in to it to send emails. I can tell I need to click on to in the new message to open the addressbook, but I can not get gnopernicus to get to

Re: gnopernicus screen review

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Ward
You wrote: Are there any other mozilla tricks? Yes, there are quite a few hot keys in mozilla that aid you in reading the web pages and navigating around in Mozilla. One of my personal favorites is f6 and shift+f6 for quickly switching between frames on a web page. You can get a crash course by re

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